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7. Januar 2013

Another festive post for another Christmas : ) And traditionally, I chose a gold+red combination.

First I painted my nails with Avon Real Red, which I got from lovely Antallex. Real Red is a perfect name for the polish: it's pure red colour, without any additional tinges. Might be an ideal red for many women. But.. let the gods and Antallex forgive me, but it was the worst application of a red polish I've had since maaany months. The polish is opaque, but with a very very liquid formula: it tends to flood your cuticles, fingers, laptop and cat. And the brush didn't work good for me either. Maybe it was because of a Xmas hustle and the fact that I didn't have much time to do my nails.. don't know : )

And then.. and then I decided to try a totally new technique for me - so called "saran wrap". Practically it's very simple: you have to apply 1 coat of some shimmery (gold, silver etc.) polish over already dry base colour, and then immediately to dab over your nail with a rolled ball of kitchen plastic wrap. You have to work with one nail at a time. And that's what you get:

For the golden effect I was using China Glaze Midnight Kiss - a golden foil polish.

Thank you, Mari! :) I also was eager to try saran wrap technique for a long time and now I finally managed! You should try too, it's so easy! :) The cat is imaginary in this case, the real one lives with my parents in another country :) :)

Merry Christmas again! =DHere in Brazil we have Avon as well, but the products are somewhat different from the ones you get in other countries. For instance, the nail polish bottles come with the Brazilian standard of 8 ml (don't ask me why, but nearly all brands come in such bottles). For a long time their nail polish had the same problem here: runny formula and weird brush, but it seems that in the last collections it has improved - must find that out, since I got myself one recently. Anyways, I totally dig your saran wrap - even if it's not for Christmas, there's something about this red/golden combo that I find very appealing. And I also must venture in this technique, since it does seem to be fairly simple, with a very interesting comeout. =)

Nice to see you here, thanks for the comment :) 8 ml Avon? Hmm.. never seen! The ones I'm showing were sent to me by a fellow blogger from Russia, I have no idea about German Avon. But you are right, I never really noticed before, but now I realised that Brazilian polish come in smaller bottles.. but that's even better, no? :) Who of us has used a 15ml bottle till the end? :) And yes, you should definitely try saran wrap technique!! It's super simple, but nice!

Indeed, come to think of it, if you're not a regular nail polish user, you already have a hard time trying to at least ~use~ all of your NPs in the first place. Hehehe... Not such a big deal if they come with 8-9ml. ;o)

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